And, I am referring to true birds of the avian species not an Austin Powers slang for women.  Remember inBambi, when Thumper and Bambi ask owl why the animals are acting so strange in the spring.  Flower meets his match or mate, and ultimately so do Thumper and Bambi.  10 points if you remember Bambi’s ‘bird.’

Yesterday, I observed the twitterpating of two birds who have decided to bill and coo in my mother’s topiary arrangement on the back porch.  What was incredibly convenient about the occurrence was that the topiary sits next to a mirror so while the birds are flirting amongst the back of the bush, the mirror reflects their goings on.  I sat and drank my coffee in the kitchen and watched as these two birds chirped and cheeped their love and the joy of a warm late winter day.

I am finally back in Pennsylvania after 3 weeks on the road.  I hadn’t planned on 3 weeks, but oh my how the days do fly.  Verbal and I have been well-traveled and that culminated with a short weekend in Michigan, and then Verbs and I driving back to State College last Sunday night.

I proceeded to spend the next three days with a vile headache induced by a health cleanse, the cure for a rash of sugar and salt that I seemed to have been inhaling at the speed of light.  I feel like I have come out of a tunnel, and today is the first day when I don’t feel like I will pass out at any second from lack of sugar.

Verbal isn’t too happy with my comatose behavior, or he thinks that the three weeks of travel was much more exciting than what I am currently offering.  From Verbal’s point of view, he had different scenery, people, and animals almost each week.  In South Carolina, he had the ocean, sand, another dog, birds, and a variety of friends to pet and fawn over him.  In Illinois, he had a lake, woods, open fields, ducks, and a new dog to meet.  He also met up with goats and cattle both of which caused him to become so excited that he finally burst forth in howling barking delight, and in the matter of the goats, he created a goat stampede.  So you can understand why the prospect of me and walks in the park pales by comparison.

It’s another gorgeous day in State College, but according to the weather report we will lose twenty degrees by this afternoon.  Such is life outside of sunny So. Cal.

As ever,

K. Quinn